Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-10-07
Al New mnmp-hire Opinion.

The Manchester, n. H. Mirror and Amer
lean contains the following complimentary
article under the caption The Vermont
Farmers ~
Our reporter who went up to the Yer
mont state fair last week has returned an
enthusiastic admirer of Green Mountain
farms and farmers The exhibition was TO
him revelation of agricultural wealth,
such AS he had never seen in New Hamp-
shire and scarcely expected TO find in New
England. And this we think is the case
with nearly every man who goes for the
first time from our own state across the
Connecticut to an annual fair. Vermont is
undoubtedly the garden of the East There
may be portions of other states as fertile
and well titled indeed, we suppose there is
more good land in Maine than in Vermont,
and the demands of city markets in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut have caused some
sections of those commemorative to be en-
riched so as to yield enormous crops, but
taken as a whole, there is no other whose
farms and farmers can match Vermont.
She has little waste land Her hills are
crowned with fields and pastures in which
the sweetest grasses grow mxuriantly and
her valleys are of rich loan which only
needs 70 Ice tickled with hoe and horse
hoe at that, to laugh with harvest Her
people are fitted to make the most of the
pleasant places in which their lot is cast
Taken together they come nearer to being
genuine thoroughbred Yankees than those
of almost any other state in the Union. In
telligent industrious, self reliant, horn and
bred TO their calling, they are, as a rule,
types of the ideal New England farmer in
the days when farming was our leading,
best and most prosperous industry Be
- he 20 hot 81
ly devoted TO their business and content
with it. 1t is their object To improve it.
make it pay, get all out of it possible and
not run 10 away and leave it, The Yer
mont farmer Is not merely staving on his
broad acres until he can get a job IN a store
or mill, but he is there 10 make them
yield good living for himself and family
and leave them in good condition TO his
children, This is reflected or suggested by
every farmers meeting and fair We new
er attended one of these gatherings in
which the managers and leading spirits
were not practical farmers who were able
~ tell and show what they were doing and
why they were doing it, instead Of profes-
slonal men and politicians who were com
PEELED 20 occupy the time in advising other
people 70 do what they themselves dared
not undertake, or having undertaken, had
abandoned
In New Hampshire we may almost say
we have none of these conditions A large
share Of our soil is sterile, and much of il
entirely unfit for cultivation, and too many
of our farmers keep but one eye upon their
business, while the other is looking afar off
for a chance IN the city or village Agri-
culture is wedged in between other callings
which, 70 the superficial observer, at least
have more attractions and the result is a
demoralizing spirit Of discomfort and un-
rest, which is vastly and vitality different
from the steady confidence and untiring
zeal which inspires the hushandmen Of Yer
mont. So too our population is largely
city-bOrn aud has little love for the soil. and